Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-16

| Durlng the last Iofty years three millions \ of the people of Ireland have left that coun- try for America, and recently ten thousand | departed from one port in a weeks time. 1 According to Local Assembly No. 8, 153, of Portland, Oregon, MT. Powderly is not ''the foe of the capitalistic monopoly" but is ''one | of it's most powerful allies" This is sad and important, if true.
 1 Omaha is much stirred up by George | it's valuable land, estimated to be worth 1 SIG, 1000, ,O00. Train bought the land in 1865, | and he claims to still hold the title. The proposition made by the representa- tives of the English holders of Virginia bonds gives the principal of the debt at twenty eight millions, at two and half per cent. interest. The past due coupons are to be | bonded at seventy-fve per cent. on the dol 1 lar, in bonds payable in fifty years, but re- deemable at pleasure by the State and bear ing interest at three per cent, or they may be redeemed at fifty cents on the dollar in cash The amount to be paid annually by the State under this arrangement would be something over eight hundred thousand dollars.
 One of the effects of the strike of the building trades in Chicago will be to make rents even higher than they are for the very class of men who are foremost in the strike. The Inter Ocean says that it is especially unfortunate for the laborers. 'The master builders will not be greatly injured by it. The number of houses now vacant and the number likely to be built seemed to point to the near advent of time when landlords would not require B per cent. interest on first cost as the measure of rental values. At this point the bod carriers chose to go on maintained, capital seeks another channel, and labor is depressed by it's own action"
 There is call in Massachusetts for a con- potent proof-reader to look over the new laws, for the purpose of giving to them proper grammatical construction. One of the worst instances of irregularity in this respect is found in the revised insurance laws, which were passed few days ago. A section in these laws is the form of insurance policy which must be adopted by all the companies insuring against fire in the State. A con- tract of this important character, which will inevitably come up again and again before the courts for interpretation, ought of course to be very carefully prepared, but as the law now stands form of insurance policy is made compulsory which contains number of glaring grammatical inaccuracies.
 In Burmah the English government has
 
 treasures, of immense forests of teak, wkich, never very plentiful in India. was becoming commercially quite rare, and consequently of increased cost for industrial purposes. Of all the woods grown in the East this has been pronounced as, in some respects, the most valuable. This superiority consists in it's being neither too heavy nor too hard; it does not warp or split under exposure, no matter how prolonged, to heat or dampness; it con- tains essential oil which possesses the rare property of preventing the wood from rotting under wet conditions, and, at the same time, act as a preservative to iron, and repels insects; it is, in addition, handsome wood, of several varieties. of color and grain, and takes good polish.
 The colored voters in Massachusetts mean to be recognized" this year. The Boston correspondent of the New York Freeman says that the sincerity of the Massachusetts Republicans, as it relates to the full and thorough recognition of colored Republicans holding places of honor and trust in the State government, is to be severely tested this au tumn when the State convention comes off. The Wendell Phillips club has declared through its president that fit is high time the colored voters in the commonwealth skared some of the honors which their fellow